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DANIEL KREISS
377 Carroll Hall, Chapel Hill NC 27599
(c) 415.238.6924
Website: http://danielkreiss.com
Twitter: @kreissdaniel
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Communication, 2010 Stanford University
Department of Communication Stanford, California
M.A., Communication (Journalism), 2004 Stanford University
Department of Communication Stanford, California
B.A., Political Science, 1999 Bates College
Department of Political Science Lewiston, Maine
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, July 2016 – present University of North Carolina
School of Media and Journalism Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Adjunct Associate Professor, 2017-Present University of North Carolina
Department of Communication Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Assistant Professor, July 2011 – June 2016 University of North Carolina
School of Media and Journalism Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2014-Present University of North Carolina
Department of Communication Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Faculty Affiliate, 2015-Present University of North Carolina
UNC Center for Media Law and Policy Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Affiliate Fellow, 2011-Present Yale University
Information Society Project at Yale Law School New Haven, Connecticut
Postdoctoral Associate, 2010-2011 Yale University
Yale Law School New Haven, Connecticut
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SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Note: Asterisk (*) indicates student at time research was conducted
BOOKS
Kreiss, D. (2016). Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of
Democracy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Winner of the 2017 Information Technology and Politics Division, American Political
Science Association, Best Book Award in Information Technology and Politics.
Reviewed in The International Journal of Press/Politics, New Media & Society, Annals
of the International Communication Association, The New York Review of Books, The
Journal of Information Society and Politics.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2017
Kreiss, D. (2012). Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard
Dean to Barack Obama. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Reviewed in The International Journal of Press Politics, LSE Review of Books,
Presidential Studies Quarterly, Political Communication
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Kreiss, D., and S. C. McGregor.* "Technology firms shape political communication: The work
of Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, and Google with campaigns during the 2016 US presidential
cycle." Political Communication 35, no. 2 (2018): 155-177.
Cited in numerous international media outlets. One of NiemanLab’s ten most important
pieces of new research into digital and social media published in 2017.
Kreiss, D., R. G. Lawrence, and S. C. McGregor.* "In their own words: Political practitioner
accounts of candidates, audiences, affordances, genres, and timing in strategic social media use."
Political Communication 35, no. 1 (2018): 8-31.
Kreiss, D. "The fragmenting of the civil sphere: How partisan identity shapes the moral
evaluation of candidates and epistemology." American Journal of Cultural Sociology 5, no. 3
(2017): 443-459.
Reprinted in Palgraves edited volume (forthcoming)
Kreiss, Daniel, and A. J. Saffer. "Networks and Innovation in the Production of
Communication: Explaining Innovations in US Electoral Campaigning From 2004 to 2012."
Journal of Communication 67, no. 4 (2017): 521-544.
Kreiss, D. and Jasinski, C.* (2016). “The Tech Industry Meets Presidential Politics: Explaining
the Democratic Party’s Technological Advantage in Electoral Campaigning, 2004-2012.”
Political Communication (4), 544-562.
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Harvard Kennedy School, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy Must
Reads:
http://shorensteincenter.org/media-and-politics-must-reads-5-8-2015/
Kreiss, D. (2016). Seizing the Moment: The Presidential Campaigns’ Use of Twitter During the
2012 Electoral Cycle. New Media & Society 18(8): 1473-1490.
Findings detailed in numerous international media outlets.
Kreiss, D. (2015). “The Problem of Citizens: E-Democracy for Actually Existing Democracy.”
Social Media and Society 1(2): 1-11.
Kreiss, D., Meadows, L.*, and Remensperger, J.* (2015). Political Performance, Boundary
Spaces, and Active Spectatorship: Media Production at the 2012 Democratic National
Convention. Journalism: Theory, Practice, & Criticism 16: 577-595.
Kreiss, D. (2015). Structuring Political Engagement: The Formalization of Democratic Internet
Campaigning, 2000-2008. In C.W. Lee, M. McQuarrie and E.T. Walker, Democratizing
Inequalities: Pitfalls and Unrealized Promises of the New Public Participation. (pp. 125-142).
New York, NY: NYU Press.
This chapter was originally presented at the Democratizing Inequalities workshop in
2010. The final version is adapted from Taking Our Country Back (2012).
Anderson, C.W. and Kreiss, D. (co-authors) (2013). Black-boxes As Capacities for and
Constraints on Action: ANT and Ethnography of Electoral Politics and Journalism. Qualitative
Sociology 36(4): 365-382.
Barnard, L.* and Kreiss, D. (2013). A Research Agenda for Online Advertising: Surveying
Campaign Practices, 2000-2012. International Journal of Communication 7, 2046-2066.
Kreiss, D. and Tufekci, Z. (co-authors) (2013). Occupying the Political: Occupy Wall Street,
Collective Action, and the Rediscovery of Pragmatic Politics. Cultural Studies ⇔ Critical
Methodologies 13, 163-167.
Ananny, M., and Kreiss, D. (co-authors) (2013). Responsibilities of the State: Rethinking the
Case and Possibilities for Public Support of Journalism. First Monday, 18(4).
Reviewed in Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab’s “What’s new in digital scholarship”
(April 25, 2013).
Kreiss, D. (2012). Performing the Past to Claim the Future: Sun Ra and the Afro-Future
Underground, 1954-1968. African American Review, 45(1-2), 197-203.
Kreiss, D. (2012). Acting in the Public Sphere: The 2008 Obama Campaign’s Strategic Use of
New Media to Shape Narratives of the Presidential Race. Research in Social Movements,
Conflict, and Change, 33, 195-223.
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Kreiss, D. (2011). Open Source as Practice and Ideology: The 2003-2004 Howard Dean
Campaign’s Organizational and Cultural Innovations in Electoral Politics. Journal of
Information Technology and Politics, 8, 367-382.
Kreiss, D., Finn, M, and Turner, F. (2011). The Limits of Peer Production: Some Reminders
From Max Weber for the Network Society. New Media & Society, 13(2), 243-259.
Ananny, M., and Kreiss, D. (co-authors) (2011). A New Contract For the Press: Copyright,
Public Domain Journalism, and Self-Governance In a Digital Age. Critical Studies in Media
Communication, 28, 314-333.
Howard, P. N., and Kreiss, D. (2010). Political Parties and Voter Privacy: Australia, Canada, the
United Kingdom, and United States in Comparative Perspective. First Monday, 15(12).
Kreiss, D., and Howard, P. N. (2010). New Challenges to Political Privacy: Lessons from the
First U.S. Presidential Race in the Web 2.0 Era. International Journal of Communication, 4,
1032-1050.
Kreiss, D. (2009). Developing the ‘Good Citizen’: Digital Artifacts, Peer Networks, and Formal
Organization During the 2003-2004 Howard Dean Campaign. Journal of Information
Technology and Politics, 6(3), 281-297.
Kreiss, D. (2008). Appropriating the Master’s Tools: Sun Ra, the Black Panthers, and Black
Consciousness, 1952-1973. Black Music Research Journal, 28(1): 57-81.
Reprinted in Carroll, M. (ed.) Music and Ideology. The Library of Essays on Music,
Politics, and Society series. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2012.
EDITED SERIES
Journalism and Political Communication Unbound Series. Oxford University Press. Co-edited
with Nikki Usher, George Washington University/University of Illinois.
INVITED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Kreiss, D. (In press). “The Social Identity of Journalists.” Journalism.
Kreiss, D. (In press). “The Networked Self in the Age of Identity Fundamentalism.” To be
published in A Networked Self: Platforms, Stories, Connections, Z. Papacharissi (ed.). Routledge.
Kreiss, D. (In press). “Digital Opportunity Structures: Explaining Variation in Digital
Mobilization During the 2016 Democratic Primaries.” University of Pennsylvania Press.
Kirsten Adams*, Jenni Ciesielski*, Kate Frauenfelder*, Emma Harrison*, Brinley Lowe*,
Meredith Martinez*, Haley McDougal*, Gabrielle Micchia*, Samantha Paisley*, Sumner Park*,
Meredith Randolph*, Holly Roberts*, Abbey Rogers*, Jordan Townsend*, with Daniel Kreiss,
“Recoding the Boys’ Club: Women vs. the Political Tech Ceiling.” Won an undergraduate
research grant ($5,000) from UNC to lead a semester long research course. Released a public
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report and website (recodingtheboysclub.com) at GoogleDC (in-kind sponsor) with Facebook,
Microsoft, and WPAi event sponsors (raised $7,500). Report featured in Axios.
Kreiss, D. “The Media Are About Identity, Not Information.” In Boczkowski, Pablo J., and Zizi
Papacharissi. Trump and the media. MIT Press, 2018.
Kreiss, D. "Micro-targeting, the quantified persuasion." Internet Policy Review 6, no. 4 (2017).
Kreiss, D., J.O. Barker*, and S. Zenner*. (2017). “Trump Gave Them Hope: Studying the
Strangers in their Own Land.” Political Communication 34(3), 470-478.
Kreiss, D. (2017). “Social Media Did Not Give us Donald Trump and Is Not Weakening
Democracy.” 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Campaign Report, Centre for Politics and Media
Research and the Centre for the Study of Journalism, Culture and Community, Bournemouth
University, UK. Available online at: http://www.electionanalysis2016.us/
Invited republish in Culture Digitally. Available online at:
http://culturedigitally.org/2016/11/social_media_trump/
Invited translated republish in Cicero
Available online at: http://cicero.de/weltbuehne/aufstieg-von-donald-trump-facebook-
und-twitter-warens-nicht-
Kreiss, D. and J.S. Brennen* (2016). Normative Theories of Digital Journalism. In C.W.
Anderson, D. Domingo, A. Hermida, and T. Witschge (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Digital
Journalism Studies. New York: Sage.
Brennen, J.S.*, and Kreiss, D. (2016.). Entries on “digitalization,” “information society,” and
“network society.” In K.B. Jensen, R.T. Craig, J. Pooley, and E. Rothenbuhler (Eds.), The
International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-
Blackwell and the International Communication Association.
Kreiss, D. (2016.). Beyond Administrative Journalism: Organized Skepticism in a New Key. In
J. C. Alexander, E. Breese and M. Luengo, The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: From
Technology to Culture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Karpf, D., Kreiss, D., Nielsen, R. K., and Powers, M. (equal authors) (2015). The Role of
Qualitative Methods in Political Communication Research: Past, Present, and Future.
International Journal of Communication, 9, 1888-1906.
Welch, C.* and Kreiss, D. (2015). Internet, Society, and Politics. In M. Shally Jensen, (Ed).,
Encyclopedia of American Political Culture. New York, NY: NYU Press, pp. 614-619.
Kreiss, D. (2015). The Networked Democratic Spectator. First Issue/Manifesto. Social Media
and Society. Available online at:
http://m.sms.sagepub.com/content/1/1/2056305115578876.full.pdf
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Kreiss, D. (2015). Digital Campaigning. In D. Freelon and S. Coleman (Eds.), Handbook of
Digital Politics. (pp. 118-135). New York, NY: Edgar Elgar.
Kreiss, D. and Welch, C.* (2015). Strategic Communication in a Networked Age. In V. A.
Farrar-Myers and J. S. Vaughn (Eds.), Controlling The Message?: New Media in American
Political Campaigns. (pp. 13-31). New York: New York University Press.
Kreiss, D. (2015). Afterword to the Special Issue, “The Objects of Journalism.” Journalism:
Theory, Practice and Criticism, 16(1), 153–156.
Kreiss, D. (2014). A Vision of and for the Networked World: John Perry Barlow's ‘Declaration
of the Independence of Cyberspace’ at Twenty. In J. Bennett, P. Kerr, and N. Strange (Eds.),
Media Independence: Working With Freedom or Working for Free? (pp. 117-136). New York,
NY: Routledge.
Kreiss, D. and Meadows, L.* (co-authors). (2014). Intra-movement Agenda Setting: Strategic
New Media Messaging During a LGBT Ballot Campaign. In J. Girouard and C. Sirianni (Eds.),
Varieties of Civic Innovation: Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, and Narrative Approaches.
(pp. 75-91). Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
Kreiss, D. (2014). The Virtues of Participation Without Power: Campaigns, Party Networks, and
the Ends of Politics. Sociological Quarterly 55, 537-554.
Karpf, D., Kreiss, D., and Nielsen, R. K. (equal authors) (2014). A New Era of Qualitative
Political Communication Research?: A History and a Case For New Approaches. In L. Lievrouw
(Ed.), Challenging Communication Research (2013 International Communication Association
Theme Book). pp. 43-60. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
Kreiss, D. (2012). Crowds and Collectives in Networked Electoral Politics. Limn, 2.
Kreiss, D. (2012). Yes We Can (Profile You): A Brief Primer on Campaigns and Political Data.
Stanford Law Review Online, 64, 70-74.
Ananny, M. and Kreiss, D. (co-authors) (2011). Journalism for and by the Public: Creating a
Free Press. Communication Currents, 6(6).
Kreiss, D., and Turner, F. (2008). Future Shock. In W.A. Darity, International Encyclopedia of
the Social Sciences, 2nd edition. 9 vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
EDITED JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
Karpf, D., Kreiss, D., Nielsen, R. K., and Powers, M. (Eds.) (2015). Qualitative Political
Communication Research: New Methodological Approaches in a Time of Technological and
Institutional Change. Special Section, International Journal of Communication, 9, 1888-2091.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Adams, K.* and Kreiss, D. Book review. [Review of the book, Networked News, Racial Divides:
How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive Communities.] Journal of
Mass Communication Quarterly. Forthcoming.
Adams, K.* and Kreiss, D. Book review. [Review of the book, Columns to Characters: The
Presidency and Press Enter the Digital Age.] New Media and Society. In press.
Kreiss, D. Book Review. [Review of the book Hacking the Electorate by Eitan Hersh].
International Journal of Press/Politics., 2016.
Kreiss, D. Review Essay. [Review of the books Digital Dilemmas by M.I. Franklin, Forging
Trust Communities by Irene S. Wu, and The Marketplace of Attention by James Wu.] Political
Communication, 33(1): 158-163, 2015.
Kreiss, D., and Nielsen, R.K. (co-authors). Book Review. [Review of the book The Hybrid
Media System: Politics and Power by A. Chadwick.] Social Forces. Advanced review published
online October 23, 2014.
Kreiss, D. Review Essay. [Review of the books Collective Action in Organizations: Interaction
and Engagement in an Era of Technological Change, by B. Bimber, A. J. Flanagin, and C. Stohl,
iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era, by R. L. Fox and J. M.
Ramos, eds., and Rebooting American Politics: The Internet Revolution, by J. Gainous and K.
Wagner.] Perspectives on Politics 11(3), 942-945.
Kreiss, D. (2013). Book Review. [Review of the book WikiLeaks: News in the Networked Era
by C. Beckett and J. Ball.] Journalism 14(6), 839-840.
Kreiss, D. (2011). Book Review. [Review of the book Edited Clean Version by R. Guins].
Science, Technology, & Human Values, 36(2), 279-282.
Kreiss, D. (2009). Book Review. [Review of the book Blogging by J. W. Rettberg]. Journal of
Communication, 59(2), E17-E2.
GRANTS
Awarded
UNC Undergraduate Research Consortium Training, $5,000. Women in Political Technology.
Grant leveraged $7,500 in additional funds from Facebook, Microsoft, and WPAi.
School of Media and Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research Center
Seed Grant (February, 2017). $5000. w/Adam Saffer. “The New Political Networks.”
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School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Research Center Seed Grant (February 9, 2013) $5000. “Unplugging the Party: The Dismantling
of Republican Campaign Infrastructure, 2000-2012”
Role: Primary investigator
Applied for
“The New Intermediaries in The Technology Firms that are New Infrastructure of Democracy.”
Submitted to the National Science Foundation, Science, Technology, and Society Program,
2016, 2018.
“New Media and Political Voice in the Rural South.” Christopher Bail (UNC-CH Sociology),
Melanie Green (UNC-CH Psychology), Daniel Kreiss (UNC-CH, School of Journalism and
Mass Communication), and Andrew Perrin (UNC-CH Sociology). Submitted to the National
Science Foundation, Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research Program, 2012,
2013, 2014.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Kreiss, D. “The Reluctant Self-Regulator: Facebook's uneasy relationship with political content
and advertising.” To be presented at the Political Communication preconference, American
Political Science Association, August 29, 2018.
Kreiss, D. and S. McGregor. “Interpreting the User: Technology Firms’ Limited
Imaginations of Their Democratic Responsibilities” in Social Media Platforms: A Crisis of
Democracy? Mon, May 28, 11:00 to 12:15. 2018 International Communication Association
Annual Conference.
Kreiss, D. and H. Roberts*. “Navigating Difficult Terrain: Revealing the Hidden
Experiences of U.S. Women Working in Political Technology, 2004-2016” in Consulting
the Consultants: Methodological Pluralism and Pragmatism in Studying Communications
Intermediaries, Mon, May 28, 17:00 to 18:15. 2018 International Communication
Association Annual Conference.
Freelon, D., Kreiss, D., and Napoli, P. “A State-Level View of the Crisis in U.S.
Democracy: Mapping the Political and Media Dynamics of North Carolina Over the Past
Decade” in Global Populism, Local Populism: Comparing Sub-National Dynamics of the
Crisis of Democracy, Sat, May 26, 9:30 to 10:45. 2018 International Communication
Association Annual Conference.
McGregor, S.*, Zenner, S.*, and Kreiss, D. “An Emergent Public: Journalistic Representation of
Social Media as Public Opinion.” Political Communication Interest Group. To be Presented at
the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference,
August 2017.
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Kreiss, D. and S. McGregor.* “From Distribution Channels to Active Intermediaries: How
Technology Firms Shape Political Communication.” Political Communication Division Best
Paper Award. Presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference,
May, 2017.
Kreiss, D., Lawrence, R., and S. McGregor*. “Instastyle: Campaign Communication in a Selfie
Era.” Presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference, May, 2017.
McGregor, S.*, Kreiss, D., and R. Lawrence, “Instastyle: Campaign Communication in the
Selfie Era.” Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference,
September, 2016.
Kreiss, D., Saffer, A., Harker, J.* and Hedding, K.* “Party Networks and the Production of
Political Communication.” Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual
Conference, September, 2016.
Kreiss, D., Saffer, A., Harker, J.* and Hedding, K.* “A Network Analysis of the Production
of Campaign Communication in a Digital Age.” Presented at the International
Communication Association Annual Conference, Fukuoka, Japan. June, 2016.
Kreiss, D. (2016, April 7). “An Ethics of Care for Infrastructural Repair.” Presented at The
Maintainers. Stevens Institute of Technology. Hoboken, NJ., USA.
Kim, Young Mie, and Kreiss, D. (2015, October). “Political Advertising in the Age of Big Data:
Microtargeting and its Implications for Political Science Research.” Presented at The
Empiricist's Challenge: Asking Meaningful Questions in Political Science in the Age of Big Data
conference, MZES, University of Mannheim, Germany.
Kreiss, D., and Jasinski, C.* (2015, September). The Sources of Innovation in Political
Communication: A Comparative Analysis of the Careers of Digital, Data, and Analytics Staffers
on Republican and Democratic Presidential Campaigns and Partisan Firm Founding, 2004-2012.
Presented at the Political Communication Preconference, American Political Science Association
Annual Conference.
Kreiss, D., and Brennen, J.S.,* (2015, May). Normative Theories of Digital Journalism.
Presented at a Journalism Studies Division Panel at the International Communication
Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Kreiss, D. (2014, August) Performative Power and Social Media: Presidential Campaigns’ Use
of Twitter During the 2012 Electoral Cycle. Presented at the American Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Kreiss, D. Explaining Technical Breakdown: Data, Analytics, and the Mitt Romney Presidential
Campaign.
Presented at the International Communication Association Annual Meeting,
Seattle, Washington (2014, May).
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Presented at the National Communication Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
(2013, November).
Kreiss, D., and Meadows, L.* (2013, August). Campaigning from the Closet: Contexts of
Messaging During the Campaign to Defeat North Carolina’s Amendment One. Presented at the
annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference,
Washington, DC.
Kreiss, D. and Meadows, L.* Political Performance and Active Spectatorship: Symbolically
Organizing the Polity During the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
Presented at the International Conference: Media and the Public Sphere. Examining the
Challenges in the New Communication Landscape. Athens, GA.
(2013, September).
Presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Conference, Washington, DC., (2013, August).
Presented at the International Communication Association Annual Meeting, London,
United Kingdom. (2013, June).
• Top three faculty paper award, Journalism Studies Division.
Karpf, D., Kreiss, D., and Nielsen, R.K. (equal authors) (2013, May). A New Era of Qualitative
Political Communication Research?: A History and a Case For New Approaches. Presented at
the International Communication Association Annual Meeting, London, United Kingdom.
Kreiss, D., and Anderson, C.W. (co-authors) (2013, June). Tracing the Objects of Journalism
and Politics: A Methodological Approach to Ethnographies of Objects. Presented at the ICA Pre-
Conference, “The Objects of Journalism: Media, Materiality and the News.” International
Communication Association Annual Meeting, London, United Kingdom.
Kreiss, D. and Meadows, L.* (2013, March). Media Events in a Networked Age: Twitter Publics
and Active Spectatorship. Presented at the Theorizing the Web annual conference, New York,
NY.
Kreiss, D. Developing Technologies of Control: Producing Political Participation in Online
Electoral Campaigning.
Presented at the Society for the Social Study of Science Annual Meeting, Copenhagen,
Denmark. (2012, October).
Accepted at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
LA. (Paper was accepted but not presented given the cancellation of the
conference due to Hurricane Isaac). (2012, September).
Presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference, Phoenix,
Arizona. (2012, May).
Presented at the Information, Communication and Society-Oxford Internet Institute, A
Decade in Internet Time symposium, Oxford University, Oxford, United
Kingdom. (2011, September).
Presented at the Network Politics: Objects, Subjects and New Political Affects
symposium, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. (2010, October).
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Kreiss, D. (2012, May). Acting in the Networked Public Sphere: the Obama Campaign’s
Strategic Use of New Media to Shape Narratives of the 2008 Presidential Race. Presented at the
International Communication Association Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.
Kreiss, D. (2012, May). The OWS Movement: Analyzing the Contexts and Role of Media in
Mass Mobilization. Presented at the International Communication Association Annual
Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.
Kreiss, D. and Barnard, L.* (2012, May). Yes We Can (Profile You): Political Campaigns and
Online Advertising, 2000-2012. Presented at the International Communication Association
Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.
Kreiss, D. (2011, May). Funding Quality News: A Case For Institutional Subsidies of Amateur
Producers. Presented at the Extending Expertise? Experts and Amateurs in Communication and
Culture conference, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Kreiss, D. (2010, October). From Amateurs to Professionals: The Formalization of Democratic
Internet Campaigning, 2004-2008. Presented at the Democratizing Inequalities conference,
Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, New York.
Kreiss, D. (2010, May). Open Source as Practice and Ideology: The 2003-2004 Howard Dean
Campaign's Organizational and Cultural Innovations in Electoral Politics. Presented at the
Journal of Information Technology and Politics ‘The Politics of Open Source’ conference,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
• Conference Best Paper Award
Kreiss, D. (2009, August). Institutional Contexts of Use of New Media in Electoral Politics:
From Howard Dean to Barack Obama. Presented at the American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.
Kreiss, D., and Ananny, M. (2009, August). A New Contract For the Press: Copyright, Public
Domain Journalism, and Self-Governance in a Digital Age. Presented at the American
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Third Place, Top Student Paper Competition.
Kreiss, D. (2008, May). Sun Ra and the Black Panthers: Consciousness and African American
Technological Appropriation. Presented at the International Communication Association Annual
Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
Kreiss, D. (2008, April). Taking Our Country Back: The New Left, Yippies, Deaniacs, and the
Production of Contemporary American Politics. Presented at the Politics: Web 2.0: An
International Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
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Kreiss, D., Nordenstreng, K, and Glasser, Theodore, G. (2007, April). Innovation and
Journalism – An Impossible Equation? Presented at The Third Conference on Innovation
Journalism, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Kreiss, D. (2006, November). From Avant-garde Jazz to Hip Hop: Race and Technology During
the 1950s-1970s. Presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting,
Vancouver, Canada.
Kreiss, D., Nordfors, D., and Sandred, J. (2005, April). Benchmarking the Swedish Market:
Introducing the Innovation Journalism Index. Presented at The Second Conference on Innovation
Journalism, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
ORGANIZED CONFERENCES AND PANELS
Anderson, C.W., Karpf, D., Kreiss, D., Nielsen, R.K., and Powers, M. (equal organizers). (2017,
May). Pre-conference on Normative Theories in Communication Research. Held at the
Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Lee, C., Kreiss, D., Tufekci, Z., and R. Thornburg. (equal organizers). What Should We Be
Worried About: Information and Media in the Trump Era. Joint event with the UNC School of
Information and Library Science and School of Media and Journalism. May 31, 2017.
Kreiss, D., Normative Theories of Digital Journalism. Journalism Studies Division Panel at the
International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015.
Karpf, D., Kreiss, D., Nielsen, R.K., and Powers, M. (equal organizers). (2014, May). Pre-
conference on Qualitative Political Communication Research. Held at the International
Communication Association Annual Meeting. University of Washington. Seattle, Washington.
Kreiss, D. and Turow, J. (co-organizers). (2012, May). Data-Crunched Democracy: Where Do
We Go From Here? Conference held at Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA. Featured in: “Power Needs to Be Restored to Internet Users,” The Nation, May
14, 2018. Available online at: https://www.thenation.com/article/power-needs-to-be-restored-to-
internet-users/
Gillespie, T., Annany, M, Kreiss, D., and Gray, M. (2012, October). The Politics of Algorithms.
Panel held at the Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting. Frederiksberg, Denmark.
Kreiss, D., (co-organizer). (2012, January). UNC Center for Media Law and Policy brown bag
lunch on “Social Networks, Privacy, and Politics.” School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Kreiss, D., (co-organizer). (2011, November). UNC Center for Media Law and Policy
symposium on “Social Networks and the Law.” School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Kreiss, D. (2010, October). Yale Information Society Project Privacy and Innovation
Symposium. Sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation and Yale Law School.
Kreiss, D. (2009, October). Artifacts, Institutions, and Practices in the Production of
Contemporary U.S. Politics. Panel held at the Society for Social Studies of Science Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Kreiss, D. (2009, May). New Media and Political Communication: Rebele First Amendment
Fellowship Panel. Held at and sponsored by the Department of Communication, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA.
SELECT INVITED TALKS
Kreiss, D. “Designing Multi-Method Research.” Tow Center Research Methods Workshop,
Columbia Journalism School. June 15, 2018.
Kreiss, D. “Technology-intensive Campaigning: Reflections on the US case and the 2016 cycle”
and “Social Media and Politics” to be presented at Humlab, Umeå university, Sweden. May 22
and 23, 2018.
Kreiss, D. Workshop on Digital Methods. Texas State Digital Scholarship Panel. May, 2018.
Kreiss, D. “What We Owe Each Other: Social Media Mobilization and the Obligations of
Democratic Life.” Presented at the Social Media and Citizenship Symposium, University of
Michigan. March 16, 2018.
Kreiss, D. “Identity, Communication, and Politics.” Presented at the Communication,
Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy conference, School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, University of Wisconsin. March 2, 2018.
Kreiss, D. “Microtargeting, the quantified persuasion.” Keynote address at the Amsterdam
Symposium on Political Microtargeting. September 22, 2017.
Kreiss, D. Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy.
Presented at Bloomberg, San Francisco. May 24, 2017.
Presented at the “Beyond Brexit, Trump, and Fake News Conference,” Bloomberg
School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, May 8, 2017
Presented at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship, Concordia
University, Montreal, Canada, March 24, 2016.
Presented at the School of Information and Communication, Rutgers University,
March 6, 2017.
Presented at the Department of Journalism, Media Studies, and Public Relations,
Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, Hofstra University, February 16,
2017.
Presented at the Department of Communication, Texas A&M University,
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February 2-4, 2017.
Presented to Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research Annual Retreat, South Beach,
Miami, January 14, 2017.
Presented at the Columbia School of Journalism, December 15, 2016.
Presented at Stanford Law School, December 1, 2016.
Presented at the CUNY Graduate Center, October 13, 2016.
Presented at the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, International Conference for
Political Communication, Berlin, Germany, October 10, 2016.
Presented at Targeted Victory, September 15, 2016.
Presented at the American Enterprise Institute, September 22, 2016.
Presented at the School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington
University, September 15, 2016.
Presented at the Department of Communication, Stanford University, March 2016.
Presented at the Forum for Entrepreneurship, Analytics, Scholarship, & Thought, Brown
University, February 29, 2016.
Presented at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of
Texas at Austin, February 15, 2016.
Class Guest Lectures (virtual)
Ammina Kothari, Rochester Institute of Technology
Brooke McKeever, University of South Carolina
Zizi Pappacharissi, University of Illinois-Chicago
Nate Persily, Stanford University
Katie Searles, Louisiana State University
Kreiss, D. and A. Saffer. "Networks and Innovation in the Production of Communication:
Explaining Innovations in U.S. Electoral Campaigning from 2004-2012." Presented at Microsoft
DC, April 11, 2017.
Kreiss, D. “Sociological and STS Approaches to the Study of Digital Politics,” part of The
Past, Present, and Future of Digital Politics Research: A Roundtable. To be presented at the
American Political Science Association Annual Conference, September, 2016.
Kreiss, D. Theory and Political Communication Research. Presented at the Political
Communication Preconference, American Political Science Association Annual Conference.
Philadelphia, PA, 2016.
Kreiss, D. (2016, May 6). “Silicon Valley Meets Washington D.C.” Presented at the Penn
Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, University of Pennsylvania.
Kreiss, D. (2015, December 4). “Prototype Politics.” Presented at the Political Discourse
Symposium on the Impact of Redistricting, Campaign Finance and the Media in Modern
Elections. Iowa Public Policy Center, University of Iowa.
Kreiss, D. (2015, June 29-July 1). Comunicacione Departmento, "Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile". Three talks, “The Myths and Realities of Social Media and the Obama 2012
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Campaign,” “Field Studies in a Time of Media and Technological Change,” “U.S. Presidential
Campaigning in the Social Media Age,”
Kreiss, D. (2015, June 24). “Online Political Advertising.” Bipartisan Policy Center (sponsored
by Google). Washington D.C.
Kreiss, D. (2015, May 9). “Heading into 2016: Data, Technology, Targeting.” Covering
Campaigns: A Conference for Journalists Reporting on the 2016 Election, Nieman Foundation
and Institute of Politics, University of Chicago. Available online at:
http://nieman.harvard.edu/sites/covering-campaigns/videos/
Kreiss, D. (2015, April 25). Political Innovation: Digital Technologies, Social Media, and
Databases in Electoral Politics, 1998-2014. Presented at the International Workshop on Political
Communication, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada.
Kreiss, D. (2015, March 25). Innovation and Inertia in Political Campaigning: Digital
Technologies and the Republican and Democratic Parties, 2004-2014. Presented at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School in a sponsored event by the American
Constitution Society and UNC Center for Media Law and Policy.
Kreiss, D. (2015, February 20). The Future of Voter Mobilization and Engagement. The
Campaign of the Future: A Conference on the Emerging Technology of Campaign
Communication, Mobilization, and Fundraising. Presented at Stanford University Law School
for the Federal Election Commission.
Kreiss, D. (In residence, June 2-6, 2014). Performative Power and Social Media: Presidential
Campaigns’ Use of Twitter During the 2012 Electoral Cycle. Presented at Microsoft Research
New England.
Kreiss, D. Explaining Technical Breakdown: Data, Analytics, and the Mitt Romney Presidential
Campaign.
Presented at Microsoft Research New England. (2014, June 3).
Presented at the CRADLE Seminar, School of Information and Library Science,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. (2014, March 7).
Presented at the Visiting International Scholars program, School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. (2014, January 17).
Kreiss, D. (2014, March 11). Power in Parties: Campaigns, Democratic Spectacles, and
Participation Without Decision-Making. Presented to the Civic Paths Working Group at the
Annenberg School, University of Southern California.
Kreiss, D. (2013, September 4). Political Performance and Active Spectatorship: Symbolically
Organizing the Polity During the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Presented at the
Department of Communication, the University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.
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Kreiss, D. (2013, August 11). Power in Parties: Campaigns, Democratic Spectacles, and
Participation Without Decision-Making. Presented at the Cultural Sociology on Participatory
Democracy roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New
York City, NY.
Kreiss, D. Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to
Barack Obama. (Invited book talks after publication).
Presented at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, New Haven, CT. (2013,
December 6).
Presented at the School of Communication, American University. Washington, DC.
(2012, November 27).
Presented at the Ash Center Democracy Seminar, Kennedy School, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA. (2012, November 14).
Presented at The Rosenfield Program, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA. (2012, November
8).
Presented at the School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University,
Washington, DC. (2012, November 1).
Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. (Talk was canceled due
to Hurricane Sandy). (2012, October 29).
International Scholars Presentation, School of Journalism and Mass Communication,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. (2012, October 12).
Presented at the Stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law,
Program on Liberation Technology, Stanford, CA. (2012, September 27).
Presented at the Program in the Humanities and Human Values panel “Election Season
Essentials.” Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC. (2012, July 25). (Aired on C-SPAN).
Kreiss, D. (2013, January 5). Electoral Stability and Technological Change: Data, Strategic
Communications, and the 2012 Presidential Election. Presented at the American Association of
Legal Scholars Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Kreiss, D. (2012, October 1). Part of the panel, Tweeting Your Way to the White House: Social
Media and the 2012 Election. Held at the Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public
Service, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Kreiss, D. (2012, June 12). The Long History of Big Data. Presented at the Personal Democracy
Forum, New York, NY.
Kreiss, D. (2012, February 3).Yes We Can (Profile You): A Brief Primer on Campaigns and
Political Data. Presented at the Stanford Law Review 2012 Symposium: The Privacy Paradox,
Stanford Law School, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Kreiss, D. Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to
Barack Obama. (Invited talks based on forthcoming book manuscript)
Presented at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. (2011, November 18).
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Presented at the Korean Broadcast Journalist Association, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC. (2011, September 1 and October 20).
Presented at the Columbia Communications Colloquium, Communications Ph.D.
Program at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. New York,
NY. (2011, November 24).
Kreiss, D. (2009, December 11). The Whole World is Networking: Crafting Networked Politics
From Howard Dean to Barack Obama, Presented at the HUMlab, Umeå University, Umeå
Sweden.
Kreiss, D. (2009, February 25). Developing the ‘Good Citizen’: Digital Artifacts, Peer
Networks, and Formal Organizations in Contemporary Political Campaigning. Presented at the
Stanford Electrical Engineering Computer Systems Colloquium, Stanford University, Stanford,
CA.
INVITED WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
Kreiss, D. (2015, April 9.) Participant in the Social Media and the Prospects for Expanded
Democratic Participation in National Policy-Settings symposium. College of Communication,
Boston University. Boston, Massachusetts. Presented “The Problem of Citizens: Social Media
and Policy-making for Actually Existing Democracy” and panel discussant, opening plenary.
Kreiss, D. (2014, November 7). The Sources and Contexts of Innovation and Inertia in
Political Campaigning: Digital Media and the Republican and Democratic Parties, 2004-2012.
Presented at the Innovation, Organization, and Society Conference, hosted by the Tuck School of
Business at Dartmouth, co-organized with Northwestern University, Stanford University, and
University of Chicago. Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH.
Kreiss, D. (2014, May 1-3). Participant in The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: From
Technology to Culture conference. IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona,
Spain.
Kreiss, D. (2013, November 10). The Future of Public Discourse: Understanding the New Power
Dynamics of Information. University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Kreiss, D. and Meadows, L.* (2013, April 15). Political Performance and Active Spectatorship:
Symbolically Organizing the Polity During the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Presented
at the Civic Paths Working Group, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Kreiss, D. (2013, January 25). Campaigning from the Closet: The Contexts of Messaging During
the Campaign to Defeat North Carolina’s Amendment One. Presented at the American Politics
Research Group, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
NC.
Kreiss, D. (2012, September 14). An Ethnography of an Assemblage: The Contexts of
Messaging during the campaign to defeat North Carolina's Marriage Amendment. Presented at
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the Department of Sociology, Culture and Politics Workshop, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, NC.
Kreiss, D. (2012, April 20). Acting in the Networked Public Sphere: the Obama Campaign’s
Strategic Use of New Media to Shape Narratives of the 2008 Presidential Race. Presented at the
Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars Working Group, Harvard Berkman Center, Cambridge, MA.
Kreiss, D. (2011, April 11). Wiring the Party: Everyday Infrastructure Building in Democratic
Politics, 2004-2008. Presented at the Social Media in Everyday Politics Workshop, School of
Communication and Information, Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ.
ACADEMIC HONORS
The Nathan Maccoby Dissertation Award, 2010. Department of Communication, Stanford
University. Dissertation title: Taking Our Country Back?: Political Consultants and the Crafting
of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama.
Awarded in those years when there is an outstanding dissertation in the Department of
Communication.
Rebele First Amendment Fellow, September, 2008 – December, 2009. Department of
Communication, Stanford University
Fellowship awarded to students of particular promise in the study of journalism, media,
and democracy.
Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, 2009. Department of Communication, Stanford
University.
Awarded to a single teaching assistant in the Department every two years for excellence
in teaching.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1999. Bates College.
The nation’s oldest academic honor society.
Charles A. Dana Scholar, 1995.
Bates College Awarded for academic excellence and promise, leadership potential, and
service to the college and community.
TEACHING RECORD
Awarded the Ed Vick Prize for Innovation in Teaching, UNC School of Media and Journalism.
2017.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
URCT 001: Women in Political Technology, Spring 2018
MEJO 490 – The Washington Experience, Fall, 2017
MEJO 703 – Theories of Communication, Fall 2017
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MEJO 850 – Seminar in Qualitative Field Research, Spring 2018, Spring 2017,
Spring 2016, Spring, 2014.
MEJO 490 – Advanced Readings and Research in Political Communication;
Spring 2017 (1 and 3 credit classes).
MEJO 701 -- Mass Communication Research Methods
Fall, 2016; Fall, 2015; Fall, 2014; Fall, 2013; Fall, 2012; Fall 2011
MEJO 244 -- Talk Politics: An Introduction to Political Communication
Fall, 2016; Spring, 2016; Fall, 2013; Spring, 2013; Fall, 2012; Spring, 2012
MEJO 490 – Presidential Campaigning in the Social Media Age, Spring 2016
JOMC 087 – First Year Seminar, Science and Media in Public Life
Fall, 2015; Fall, 2014
JOMC 890 -- The History of the Study of Political Communication
Spring, 2014
JOMC 703 -- Mass Communication Qualitative Methods
Spring, 2013
Independent Study: Morgan Burke, Fall, 2014
Independent Study: Scott Brennen, Fall, 2014
Independent Study: David Bockino, Spring, 2014
Independent Study: Scott Brennen, Fall, 2012
Independent Study: Leticia Mazon, Summer II, 2012
Independent Study: Anasa Sinegal, 2012
Stanford University
Department of Communication
Comm 108/208: Media Processes and Effects
Winter, 2010.
Comm 111S: Digital Media and the Political Process.
Summer, 2009.
Teaching Assistant
Comm 166/266: Virtual People, Prof. Jeremy Bailenson.
Spring, 2008.
Comm 106/206: Communication Research Methods, Lecturer Victoria Groom.
Winter, 2008.
Comm 125/225: Perspectives on American Journalism, Prof. Theodore Glasser.
Fall, 2007.
Comm 120/220: Digital Media in Society, Prof. Fred Turner.
Spring, 2006.
Comm 1B: Media, Culture, and Society, Prof. Fred Turner and Prof. Shanto Iyengar.
Winter, 2006.
Comm 1: Media Technology, People, and Society, Prof. Clifford Nass.
Fall, 2005.
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Center for Teaching and Learning Graduate Teaching Consultant
2009-2010
GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES
Tenure and Promotion, Advising
Alice Warwick, Mentorship Cluster, Department of Communication, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Post-doctoral Advising
Fenwick McKelvey (2013, June). Programming the Vote. Department of Communication,
University of Washington.
Dissertations
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Committee chair:
Laura Meadows
• Dissertation title: “Queering Dixie: A Case Study of the LGBT Movement in North
Carolina”
• Assistant Professor in the School of Media at Indiana University
• Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communication, UNC-Asheville
David Bockino
• Dissertation title: “The Noble Path: The Vocational Training of American and Indian
Journalism Students”
• Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Elon University
Kylah Hedding
• Dissertation title: “What the Frack are We Talking About? The Interrelated Roles of
Science, Media, and Strategic Communication in the Public Debate of Fracking in North
Carolina and New York
• Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of
Iowa
Scott Brennen
• Dissertation title: “Science In Pieces: Public Science in the Deformation Age.”
• Post-doctoral research, Oxford Internet Institute and Reuters Institute for the Study of
Journalism
Kirsten Adams
• First Year
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Michele Meyers
• First Year
Anasa Sinegal
• Seventh Year
Committee member:
Meredith Clark
• Dissertation title: “To Tweet Our Own Cause: An Exploration of Media Framing and
Participant Narratives Surrounding the #BlackTwitter Phenomenon”
• Assistant Professor in the Mayborn School of Journalism, University of North Texas
• To become Assistant Professor in the Media Studies Department, University of Virginia
Suzannah Evans
• Dissertation title: “Low Emissions, High Concern: How Climate Communicators
Grapple with a Transnational Issue in the Philippines.”
• Assistant Professor in the School of Media, Indiana University
Jeanette Porter
• Dissertation title: “In the Pastor’s Study: A Grounded Theory Analysis of American
Baptist Ministers’ Communication on Mental Health and Illness”
• Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, University of Missouri
Ian Murphy
• Dissertation Title: “The Process, Regulation, and Strategies of U.S.-based Media
Distribution Since 2000
• Defended (Department of Communication)
Dorian Davis (reader)
• American University
Kriste Patrow
• Third Year
Kirsten Adams
• First Year
Michelle Meyer
• First Year
Master’s Theses
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Committee chair:
Cinnamon Moore (2018, July). Masters Thesis
Lily Carollo (2018, May). Masters thesis. “Our Political Moment: The Constitution’s Trouble
with Parties — and Democracy”
Kaylon Kirk (2018, May). MATC thesis. “The Anatomy of a Digital Campaign: How the
Richard Burr and Deborah Ross Campaigns Teamed with Technology in a Battleground Race for
U.S. Senate”
John Frank (2016, November). MATC thesis. “The Purple State Project: A Pilot Project at The
Denver Post in Explanatory Journalism and Digital Storytelling During the 2016 Election.”
Zack Rearick (2015, November). MATC thesis. “Every Click Counts: Best Practices to Help
Women Incumbents Achieve Strong Branding and Design on Official Congressional Websites”
Scott Brennen (2013, May). The Scientific Construction of Publics: Mars One, Reality TV, and
Democratic Rhetoric (traditional thesis).
Leticia Mazon (2013, May). The Party In Disservice: An Ethnographic Look at the Walter
Dalton for North Carolina Governor Campaign’s Relationship with the Democratic Party
(traditional thesis).
Committee member:
Yasmin Bendaas Evans (2017, May). “Ahead of the Herd: A Project Examining the Impact of
Environmental Change on the Sheepherding Industry in Rural Algeria” (professional thesis)
Jessica Collier (2016, May). Political Identity and Online Dating: A Mixed Methods Approach to
Understanding Political Identity Expression (traditional thesis)
Ray Whitehouse (2016, May). Believers (professional thesis)
Jess Clark (2015, May). Las Diamantes (professional thesis)
John Remensperger (2013, May). Managing Political Crises and Threats: A Case Study of
Planned Parenthood (traditional thesis).
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Committee Chair
Kelsey Mason (2018, April). Highest Honors. “The Republican Party After Charlottesville:
America’s Gatekeepers of Democracy in the Age of Trump — Sort of”
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Margaret Schneider (2015, April). “Yes, Madam President: A study of how female candidates
navigate political campaigns.”
Committee Reader
Rebecca Kronebusch (2018, May). “Modern Susceptibility to Fake News”
Florence Bryan (2013, May). “Presidential candidates’ wives in the media: An analysis of how
newspapers and political blogs framed Ann Romney and Michelle Obama during the 2012
general election”
SERVICE
Service to the Discipline
Editorial Board
Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 2013-2018
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
Social Media and Society
Journal of Cultural Economy
Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism
Advisory Board
Research Advisory Board Member to the George Washington University’s Graduate
School of Political Management’s Global Center for Political Management
Grant reviewing
National Science Foundation: Science, Technology, and Society Program, 2013
National Science Foundation: Science, Technology, and Society Program, 2010
Manuscript reviewing
Data and Society (2018)
MIT Press (three books in 2018, 2017, 2015, 2012)
Harvard University Press (two books in 2018)
Information, Communication, and Society (2018, 2011)
Journalism Studies (Two articles in 2017)
International Journal of Press Politics (one article in 2018)
Communication, Culture, and Critique (2018)
Polity Press (2017)
Party Politics (2017)
Social Media and Society (2017)
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (2017)
New Media & Society (Two manuscripts in 2017)
Political Communication (2018, 2017)
International Journal of Communication (2017, three articles in 2016, 2014)
Journalism (2017, 2016)
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Journal of Cultural Economy (2016)
New Media & Society (Two manuscripts in 2016)
Social Media & Society (Two manuscripts 2016)
Columbia University Press (2016)
Communication Theory (2016)
Harvard University Press (2016)
Oxford University Press (One book in 2018, one book in 2017, two books in 2016, two
books in 2013, 2012)
American Journal of Sociology (2015)
Princeton University Press (2015)
International Journal of Press Politics (2015)
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (2015, 2012)
Social Media & Society (Two articles in 2015)
Political Communication (Two articles in 2016 and two articles in 2015)
Journal of Communication (2017, 2016, 2015, 2011)
Journal of Information Technology and Politics (2016, 2015, 2013)
New Media & Society (Three articles in 2016, 2014, 2010)
Yale University Press (2014, 2013)
American Behavioral Science Review (2013)
University of Illinois Press (2013)
Theory and Society (2012)
Polity Press (2012)
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change (2012)
Public Culture (2012)
Games and Culture (2011)
Social Studies of Science (2010)
Journal of Information Technology and Politics (2010)
International Communication Association, Political Communication Division (conference
submissions) 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
International Communication Association, Journalism Studies Division (conference
submissions) 2015, 2014
Conference Committees
2017 Journalism and the Search for Truth Conference, Boston University, April 23-25,.
2017 Social Media and Society Conference, London, Canada. July 11-13.
2016 Social Media and Society Conference, London, Canada. July 11-13.
Service to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campaign Faculty Ambassador, 2017-2018
Committee Member, University Strategy Objectives and Metrics Working Group, 2017
Carolina Seminars Advisory Board, 2014-2017
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Participant, Carolina Seminars, Toward a Technics of Aesthetics: Technology, Politics, and
Contemporary Culture, 2014-2017
Participant, Honors Carolina Food for Thought, April 1, 2015.
Service to UNC School of Media and Journalism
Awarded The Richard J. Cole Service Award, 2015. School of Media and Journalism,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Moderator, Park Lecture: Tucker Carlson (2018), Dana Perino (2014), Albert Brooks
(2012)
Chair, Ed Vick Prize for Innovation in Teaching, UNC School of Media and Journalism.
2018.
Chair, Search Committee for Assistant/Associate Media Law Professor, Fall 2017
Ph.D. Director, 2015-2018.
Admissions Committee Member, 2016-2017
Curriculum Committee Member, 2016-2017
Coordinator, Mary Junck Research Colloquium, 2014-2017
Member, Ph.D. Program Advisory Committee, 2014-2017
Member, Ph.D. Program Admissions Committee, 2015-2017
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2016-2017
Member, M.A. Mass Communication Admissions Committee, 2013-2016
Co-Coordinator, Chuck Stone Symposium, October 24, 2014
Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Digital Communication, Fall, 2014
Member, Committee for Competitive 4th Year Ph.D. Funding, Spring 2014-2016
Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professors in Public Relations and Strategic
Communication (three positions), Fall 2013
Co-Coordinator, Hearst Visiting Professional Awards, 2013-2014
Co-Coordinator, Hearst Visiting Professional Awards, 2012-2013
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Member, Task Force, Residential MA Program, 2012-2013
Member, Intern Committee, Charlotte Observer Democratic National Convention project,
Spring, 2012
Member, Masters of Arts in Technology and Communication admissions committee,
Spring, 2013
Member, M.A. Mass Communication admissions committee, Spring 2013
Member, Masters of Arts in Technology and Communication admissions committee,
Spring 2012
Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Mass Media Law, Spring 2012
Organized Talks (in addition to the Mary Junck Colloquium)
Alice Marwick and Rebecca Lewis, “Looking past the facts: a sociotechnical approach
to fake news, media manipulation, and the far-right alternative press.” March 8, 2018.
School of Media and Journalism.
Sarah Sharma, “In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics.” School of
Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April
10, 2014
Fred Tuner, “The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from
World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties.” School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 27, 2014
Alexis Ohanian, “Without Their Permission.” School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 11, 2013
Hector Postigo, “The Digital Rights Movement, What it Knew About the Participatory
Web and a Theory of Counter Architectures,” Mary Junck Research Colloquium, School
of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
April 25, 2013.
Megan Finn, “Information Orders after the 1906 Earthquake,” co-organized with the
School of Information and Library Science. School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 19, 2013.
Laura DeNardis, “The World Wide War for Internet Governance,” Mary Junck Research
Colloquium, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. February 28, 2013.
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David Karpf, “The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American
Political Advocacy,” Mary Junck Research Colloquium, School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. January 17, 2013.
Neal Caren, “Names in the News: How important are American Social Movement
Organizations,” School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. September 20, 2012
Jen Schradie, “Iron Law 2.0 – Digital Democracy or Hierarchy?” School of Journalism
and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. September 12,
2012.
“The South and Presidential Politics,” with Kareem Crayton, Ferrel Guillory, Daniel
Kreiss, and Gene Nichol, The PPL at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
September 3, 2012.
Nation Hahn, “Community Building to Defeat Amendment One.” School of Journalism
and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. April 26, 2012.
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, “Ground Wars: Personalized Political Communication in
American Campaigns.” School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. April 11, 2012.
C.W. Anderson, “The Long History of Data Journalism: Reporting, Social Science, and
Document Analysis in 1912 and 2012 (With a Brief Stop in 1979).” School of Journalism
and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. April 5, 2012.
Mary Gray, “There are No Gay People Here": Expanding the Boundaries of Queer Youth
Visibility in the Rural United States.” School of Journalism and Mass Communication,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. March 15, 2012.
Mike Ananny. “Networked Journalism and a Public Right to Hear in an Age of
Newsware and APIs.” School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. December 7, 2011.
Deen Freelon. “Where the Revolution Meets the Peanut Gallery: The Roles of Twitter In
the Arab Spring.” School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. November 18, 2011.
John McMillan. “Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of
Alternative Media in America.” School of Journalism and Mass Communication,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. November 17, 2011.
Service to the Community
Engaged Scholarship
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Panelist, “Difficult Conversations: Race.” Parr Center for Ethics. November 16, 2016.
Partner School, Electionland, Fall, 2016.
Member, Scholars Strategy Network
Member, Scholars for North Carolina’s Future
Public Pieces
“Here’s What White Supremacy Looks and Sounds Like Now. (Hint: It’s Not Your
Grandfather’s KKK.)” With Kelsey Mason*. The Monkey Cage, The Washington Post.
August 17, 2017. Available online at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-
cage/wp/2017/08/17/heres-what-white-supremacy-looks-and-sounds-like-now-its-not-
your-grandfathers-kkk/?utm_term=.3b95c6439ea7
“Trump, Breitbart, and the Rejection of Multi-Cultural Democracy.” Vox.com. January
30, 2017. Available online at: http://www.vox.com/the-big-
idea/2017/1/30/14431544/trump-breitbart-rejection-multicultural-
democracy?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source
“2016: The Proving Ground for Political Data.” The Conversation. June 21, 2016.
Available online at: http://theconversation.com/2016-the-proving-ground-for-political-
data-59434
“A Trump Campaign Will Only Increase the Democrats’ Advantage in Data and
Analytics.” The Money Cage, The Washington Post. May 20, 2016. Available online at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/20/a-trump-campaign-
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Motherboard. March 18, 2014. Available online at:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-worst-glassholes-yet-will-be-politicians-vying-for-
your-vote
Quoted in, “Google Glass: Coming Soon to a Campaign Trail Near You.” NPR Morning
Edition. March 17, 2014. Available online at:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/03/17/290714189/google-glass-coming-
soon-to-a-campaign-trail-near-
you?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=share&utm_medium=twitter
Featured in, “Grokking Democracy.” IEEE Spectrum Radio. Aired nationally on National
Public Radio affiliates. 2014. Available online at: https://www.prx.org/pieces/104831-
grokking-democracy
Quoted in, “Coke or Pepsi? Politicians Say Choices Like These Reveal How You Vote.”
Forbes. November 5, 2012. Available online at:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/11/05/will-diet-pepper-pepsi-and-big-data-
determine-the-outcome-of-tomorrows-election/
Mentioned in, “Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Visits UNC.” The Daily Tar Heel.
June 12, 2013. Available online at: http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2013/11/reddit-
co-founder-alexis-ohanian-visits-unc
Quoted in, “Dean Staff Recalls Campaign that Changed Politics.” Associated Press. June
20, 2013. Available online at: http://news.yahoo.com/dean-staff-recalls-campaign-
changed-politics-175011944.html
Data-Crunched Democracy conference written about in:
The Philadelphia Inquirer, “Big Data’s Effect on Politics Discussed”:
http://articles.philly.com/2013-06-07/business/39791243_1_data-mining-
campaigns-voter
Huffington Post, “Pollster Update: Hillary Clinton’s Favorability
Drops”: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/hillary-clinton-
favorability_n_3368208.html
AdAge, “RNC Names Facebook Engineer to Boost Data Ground Game”:
http://adage.com/article/digital/rnc-names-facebook-engineer-cto-boost-data-
expertise/241876/
EPolitics, “One Big Limit on Political Data vs. Commercial Marketing Data:
Volume.” http://www.epolitics.com/2013/06/04/one-big-limit-on-political-data-
vs-commercial-marketing-data-volume/
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GovLab, “Data-Crunched Democracy: Data-Driven Campaigning’s Lessons for
Re-Imagining Governance”: http://www.thegovlab.org/data-crunched-democracy/
MediaPost, “Political Consultants: Campaigns Stay Clear of Privacy Pitfalls.”
Cited in, “Change the World: Silicon Valley Transfers its Slogans –and its Money- to the
Realm of Politics.” The New Yorker, May 27, 2013. Available online at:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/27/130527fa_fact_packer?mbid=social_m
obile_tweet
Quoted in story on the changing nature of the dissertation, Carolina Week, March 6,
2013. Available online at:
http://www.carolinaweek.org/carolina_week_archive/spring_2013_March_6th.html
Quoted in, “Social Media Explosion: Do Social Networking Sites Threaten Privacy
Rights?” CQ Researcher, January 25, 2013, 23(4): 81-104.
Cited in, “Daily Download: Lasting Legacies of Obama’s 2012 Digital Campaign
Strategy.” PBS Newshour, January 16, 2013. Available online at:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june13/dailydownload_01-16.html
Quoted in, “Christie Rival Taps Obama Political Tactic.” The Wall Street Journal,
January 16, 2013. Available online at: http://online.wsj.com/article
SB10001424127887323596204578244143239098744.html
Quoted in, “Obama’s Hacker.” NZZan Sonntag (Switzerland), December 23, 2012.
Quoted in, “What Barack Obama can teach Tesco and co.” The Independent (U.K.),
December 23, 2012. Available online at: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-
style/gadgets-and-tech/features/what-barack-obama-can-teach-tesco-and-co-
8386845.html
Quoted in, “Bruger tid med mine boneborn.” Kulture (Denmark), November 5, 2012.
Quoted in, “Everything We Know (So Far) About Obama’s Big Data Tactics.”
ProPublica, November 13, 2012. Available online at:
http://www.propublica.org/article/everything-we-know-so-far-about-obamas-big-data-
operation
Featured in, “Did Social Media Help Swing the Vote.” The Wall Street Journal,
November 7, 2012. Available online at: http://live.wsj.com/video/did-social-media-help-
swing-the-vote/1FDC116A-1A35-48AD-BFCE-57FB127F5C01.html#!1FDC116A-
1A35-48AD-BFCE-57FB127F5C01
Quoted in, “With the Help of Digital Infrastructure, Obama Wins Re-Election.”
TechPresident, November 6, 2012. Available online at:
http://techpresident.com/news/23104/help-digital-infrastructure-obama-wins-re-election
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Cited in, “How Big Data Could Determine the Winner of Todays Election.” Huffington
Post, November 6, 2012. Available online at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/x-prize-
foundation/how-big-data-could-determ_b_2082801.html
Quoted in, “Hashtag Politics: Tweets Pump Up Volume on Debate.” Raleigh News
Observer. October 15, 2012. Available online at:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/15/2415002/hashtag-politics-tweets-pump-
up.html
Cited in, “Occupy Wall Street’s Year: Three Outcomes for the History Books.” Forbes,
October 17, 2012. Available online at:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2012/09/17/occupy-wall-streets-year/
Featured in, “Targeting the Electorate.” PBS Frontline. October 22, 2012. Available
online at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/campaign-targeting/
Quoted in, “Much More than ‘Click Activism’: youth, politics, and technology.” Y-Press,
WKCD. August 28, 2012. Available online at:
http://whatkidscando.org/youth_on_the_trail_2012/y-press_technology.html
Podcast with New Books in Political Science, September 15, 2012. Available online
at: http://newbooksinpoliticalscience.com/2012/09/15/daniel-kreiss-taking-our-country-
back-the-crafting-of-networked-politics-from-howard-dean-to-barack-obama-oxford-up-
2012/
Mentioned in “At Home with the PPL in Charlotte.” Columbia Journalism Review.
September 7, 2012. Available online at:
http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/at_home_with_the_ppl_in_charlotte.php
Quoted in “Dems Get Boost as Both Parties Seek to Leverage Conventions.” Cnn.com
September 11, 2012. Available online at:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/11/politics/convention-enthusiasm-bounce/index.html
Quoted in “The Trouble with Measuring Tweets per Minute.” The New Republic.
September 7, 2012. Available online at: http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/107000/the-
trouble-measuring-tweets-minute#
Quoted in “Thousands of Bloggers Here for the DNC.” Charlotte Observer. September
13, 2012. Available online at: http://bit.ly/PYsuSG
Guest on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio tour about social media and the
American presidential election. Appeared on local radio programs in Ottawa, Whitehorse,
Kelowna, Cap Breton, Winnipeg, Yellowknife, and Halifax. August 29, 2012.
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Quoted in “Twitter Rewrites the Script for Political Conventions.” USA Today. August
22, 2012. Available online at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-08-
22/democratic-republican-convention-twitter/57221846/1
Quoted in “Harper Reed's Machine Can't Read Your Mind—Yet.” MotherJones.
September/October 2012. Available online: http://www.motherjones.com/toc/2012/09
Quoted in “2012 Conventions Embrace Social Media Openness.” Associated Press,
August 17, 2012. Nationally syndicated and available online at:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/2012-conventions-embrace-social-media-openness-
3795886.php#photo-3339698
Participated in “Campaign Ads and the 2012 Election” Google Chat with ProPublica
reporters Lois Beckett and Jeff Larson, and Joseph Turow from UPenn Annenberg.
Friday, October 10, 2012. Listed at: http://www.propublica.org/article/campaign-ads-
2012-election-join-us-google-plus
Presented talk, “Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics From
Howard Dean to Barack Obama.” Program in the Humanities and Human Values,
“Election Season Essentials.” Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, July 25, 2012. Aired on C-
SPAN August 8, 2012 and archived online at: http://c-
spanvideo.org/program/Networked&showFullAbstract=1
Quoted in “Oh, Those Politicians Have So Many Ways of Getting Our Attention.” Las
Vegas Sun, August 4, 2012. Available online at:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/aug/04/political-ads-bombarding-voters-four-
months-electi/
Featured guest on “Political Data Mining.” WBUR’s On Point, July 30, 2012. Available
online at: http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/07/30/dark-political-money
Interview with Andria Krewson, “In a Social Campaign, What Role for the Press?”
Columbia Journalism Review, April 23, 2012. Available online at:
http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/qa_daniel_kreiss_assistant_pro.php
Quoted in “”Online Data Helping Campaigns Customize Ads.” The New York Times,
February 20, 2012. Available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/us/politics/campaigns-use-microtargeting-to-attract-
supporters.html?ref=politics
Author of “Yes We Can (Profile You): A Brief Primer on Campaigns and Political Data.”
Cross-posted on the Huffington Post Politics, February 6, 2012. Available online at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-kreiss/campaign-voter-data_b_1257966.html
Author of “Yes We Can (Profile You): A Brief Primer on Campaigns and Political Data.”
Cross-posted on Gizmodo, February 3, 2012. Available online at:
http://gizmodo.com/5881964/yes-we-can-profile-you
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Quoted in “Political Data Miners Really Get to Know You.” Voice of America,
November 6, 2011. Available online at:
http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/Political-Data-Miners-Really-Get-to-
Know-You-133327648.html
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Political Science Association
• Political Communication Division
International Communication Association
• Political Communication Division
• Journalism Studies Division
NON-ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Director of Programs and Development, VoterWatch.org.
Palo Alto, CA. January 2007 – November 2008
Director of Major Gifts, The After-School Corporation.
New York, NY. November 2003 – August 2004
Founding Director, Church Avenue Merchants Block Association One World After-School
Program.
Brooklyn, NY. November 2001 – September 2003
Development Director and Electoral Organizer, Citizen Action of New York and the Public
Policy and Education Fund.
Brooklyn, NY. January 2001 – October 2001
Senior Manager of Foundation Giving, New York Cares.
New York, NY. June 1999 – December 2001